The Game Census
Way of Gold and Steel cover art

Way of Gold and Steel

Sergey Bobrov · 2015-08-17

Steam

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 17, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

What is in the "Way of Gold and Steel" which makes it interesting? Main reason is the unusual gameplay style — combination of a real-time strategy (RTS) and a roguelike.

61%
positive of 119 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$3.59
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 4 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 43% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (23 reviews).
  • · Top 34% of 44,725 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.0k–7.1k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 119 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$3.59-60%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.04 at Steam (2016-04-18) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $8.99 · on sale 6 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
161620152025Week of 2015-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$8.99$1.042015-08-172026-10-012015-08-17 — best price $6.992016-02-15 — best price $4.052016-07-04 — best price $6.992016-11-23 — best price $4.682017-03-20 — best price $6.992017-08-07 — best price $2.442017-11-02 — best price $8.992018-02-15 — best price $1.792018-07-05 — best price $8.992018-11-21 — best price $1.342019-02-12 — best price $8.992019-06-26 — best price $1.972019-10-14 — best price $8.992020-01-23 — best price $1.972020-04-20 — best price $8.992020-09-07 — best price $1.972020-12-21 — best price $8.992021-05-10 — best price $1.972021-08-02 — best price $8.992021-11-24 — best price $1.972022-02-14 — best price $8.992022-06-13 — best price $1.972022-07-25 — best price $8.992022-10-31 — best price $1.972022-12-12 — best price $8.992023-02-20 — best price $1.972023-04-10 — best price $8.992023-07-17 — best price $1.972023-10-16 — best price $8.992023-12-21 — best price $3.592024-03-04 — best price $8.992024-05-20 — best price $3.592024-07-22 — best price $8.992024-11-18 — best price $3.592025-01-02 — best price $8.992025-03-13 — best price $3.592026-06-25 — best price $3.592026-09-07 — best price $8.992026-10-01 — best price $3.59
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Russian

Player tags

RTSIndieStrategyRogue-likePixel Graphics

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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